The game marked guard Caitlin Clark’s return to her alma mater a year after she was drafted No. 1 overall to the Fever in 2024.
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When Olivia Tanke first saw Caitlin Clark play in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the WNBA superstar was still in college, having not yet gone on her back-to-back tournament runs with the Iowa women’s basketball team.
On Sunday, Olivia was once again given the opportunity to watch Clark, though not in the Black and Gold. Instead, she got the pleasure of watching Clark’s professional team, the Indiana Fever, take on the Brazil national team in a highly anticipated preseason contest.
Though the game was the second the Fever played, it was Clark’s first outing of the 2025 season, a leg injury having kept her out of the Fever’s debut against the Washington Mystics — a contest in which the Fever scraped out a 74-79 overtime win.
“I liked watching Caitlin make all those threes,” Olivia said, remarking on the star’s ability to shoot from several feet behind the three-point arc. Clark made several three-point shots in the game against Brazil, including one from just beyond her own number 22 logo with seconds waning in the third quarter.
The moment likely caused deja-vu for many Hawkeye fans, who remember watching her drain a similar-looking shot when she broke the NCAA women’s basketball scoring record in her senior season at Iowa.
As soon as Clark made the basket on Sunday, the arena erupted into cheers, with fans jumping to their feet and filling Carver with a deafening roar. Clark played up the moment, a huge smile spreading across her face.
“I knew coming into the game, everyone wanted to see me shoot one from there,” Clark said after the game. “I had to give the fans a little something.”
When Indiana Fever coach Stephnie White was questioned in a postgame press conference about Clark’s shot, she immediately defended the Fever star.
“It’s what she does,” White said. “Nobody tells Steph Curry not to take good shots.”
It’s true; Taking threepoint shots from several feet beyond the arc is part of what makes Clark so appealing to young fans of the game.
“She’s the whole reason we come,” Olivia’s mother, Breanne Tanke, said. “I think she’s a great role model for my kids. They love her. [Olivia and I] were Iowa fans and now are Fever fans
because of her.” Tanke and Olivia are not the only fans who joined the Fever’s flock upon Clark’s arrival.
Last season, the Fever’s total home attendance of 340,715 marked a single season record for any WNBA team, surpassing the previous record of 250,565 set by the New York Liberty in 2001.
“The young girls and young boys screaming my name to sign their stuff ... I don’t take that for granted, that is so cool,” Clark said in a press conference postgame.
Upon the conclusion of the game, which the Fever won, 108-44, dozens of young fans gathered near the railings that overlook the tunnel leading out to the locker rooms. Many of them held handmade posters or Clark gear they brought to the game, hoping to catch the star guard’s attention as she left the arena.
“That’s what I appreciate about [fans] the most. They want to cheer, not only for myself, but everybody else on this team. They have so much fun watching us,” Clark said in a post from the Indiana Fever’s official X, formerly known as Twitter, account.
She wasn’t wrong.
The moment the first Fever players took the floor, the arena erupted into a chorus of claps and cheers, with many young fans lifting hand-made signs into the air proclaiming their love for No. 22. But Clark wasn’t the only player to receive her laurels from the Iowa crowd.
When the starting lineups were announced, guard Kelsey Mitchell and forward Aliyah Boston both walked in to an overwhelmingly positive reception, as did new additions Natasha Howard and DeWanna Bonner.
The Fever’s game against Brazil is one of four preseason games to be played in college arenas, allowing WNBA stars to return to the courts where they first gained followings. Other sites that have WNBA games on their schedule include Notre Dame, LSU, and Oregon. This trend began last year at South Carolina University, when star Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson traveled to her alma mater, and continues to bring in new fans to the increasingly popular WNBA league.
Logan Barron, one of Clark’s young fans, entered Carver on Sunday for only the second time, following a game early in the Iowa women’s basketball team’s 2025 season. Though Logan got to see many of Clark’s old Iowa teammates during that game, she never saw Clark her-
self play until Sunday.
At one point during the game, Cedar Rapids natives Logan and her mother Taylor Barron, left the roar and excitement of the Fever faithful to search through the racks of Fever jerseys and other merchandise set up around the arena.
“ [Logan] is just trying to find anything that fits,” Taylor said.
While she and Logan were looking around at various dark blue Fever jerseys and yellow Hawkeye-clad hats, Logan spent her time dribbling a small black and gold basketball and mimicking the movements of Clark and her teammates.
One of Logan’s favorite memories from the game was the mascot race between Herky the Hawk and Freddy Fever. During the race, Herky and Freddy had to dribble a basketball down the court and make a shot from each end of the floor.
Freddy ended up winning the race by making a three-point shot. After his win, he stood and gestured toward the crowd, calling forth some claps, despite an anguished loss from Herky, who collapsed to the floor in despair.
“I liked seeing Herky down on the court,” Logan said. “And it was silly when the mascots went and threw the ball.”
Both mascots moved around the stands throughout the game, introducing themselves to and snapping pictures with any fans
they encountered.
“I also loved it when Caitlin made that three right away,” Logan said.
The first three of Clark’s eventual 16 points came 32 seconds into the first quarter when she hit a shot from the top of the arc, marking the first points of the game.
After an impressive showing from the entire Fever roster, many fans
are now looking to the future. After the game, ESPN reporter Holly Rowe got the opportunity to talk with Clark on the floor of the arena. When asked about the Fever’s ceiling for the coming season, the Hawkeye star had only a few words to say.
“Yeah, a championship,” Clark said. “That’s why I’m here.”
Audience
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Young Fever fans pose for a portrait before an Indiana Fever preseason matchup against the Brazilian women’s national team at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on May 4. Former Hawkeye Caitlin Clark scored 16 points during the game.
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Indiana guard Caitlin Clark looks up to the board during a preseason women’s basketball game between the Fever and the Brazil national team at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on May 4. The Fever defeated Brazil, 108-44.
IOWA CITY FEVER
The Indiana Fever defeated the Brazilian National Team, 108-44, in a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on Sunday, May 4.
the Brazilian national team, 108-44.
(Bottom right) Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark blocks Iza one assist. (Bottom) Fans wait for Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark to sign autographs Gateway Center in College Park, Ga., on May 10.
Iowa grapples with fentanyl deaths
Rising usage rate and increased presence of fentanyl is causing concern in Iowa.
Fentanyl overdoses in Iowa have increased fivefold over a 10-year timespan, catching the attention of Iowa lawmakers, resi dents, and community behavioral health professionals.
The rise has elicited a num ber of harm reduction strategies and legislative actions — some of which have come in the form of life sentences.
Iowa House File 792 aims to sentence an individual who has delivered, dispensed, or otherwise provided fentanyl or a fentanyl-re lated substance that resulted in the death of a person to life in prison.
In 2022, 384 overdose deaths were recorded, with 86 percent involving fentanyl, according to the Iowa Department of Public Safety.
However, nationwide trends show these numbers falling. Of the 107,000 opioid overdose deaths in 2023, 70 percent were attributed to fentanyl, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
While on the rise in the state, the rate of fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. has decreased by 1.3 per 100,000 people from 2022 to 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Passing the House
House File 792 passed on March 26, 69-27, mostly along party lines. The bill has since made its way to the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by State Sens. Matt Blake, D-Urbandale, Jason Schultz, R-Schleswig, and Mike Bousselot, R-Ankeny, where it has not progressed.
Iowa Rep. Jon Dunwell, R-Newton, drafted the bill and said during debate in March, the bill for him was known as “Kristen’s Law.”
Dunwell said the bill was first brought to him by a Newton mother who lost her daughter to a drug overdose. Her daughter, Kristen Ewing, had overdosed on a substance that was 98 percent fentanyl, lending the bill its name.
“This is a very stiff and harsh penalty, but the consequences of fentanyl deaths are even more tragic and are even more costly,” Dunwell said.
Iowa Rep. Charley Thomson, R-Charles City, said the idea behind the bill is to impose strict liability for anyone who is handling fentanyl, whether it is labeled fentanyl, declared fentanyl, or known to be fentanyl, due to the dangers of the substance.
“If you are involved in the trading of these illicit substances that are sometimes laced with fentanyl, you should know that there’s a chance of maybe killing somebody,” Thomson said.
The bill makes distribution leading to death a first-degree murder charge, which is a Class A felony in Iowa punishable by life in prison with no possibility of parole or early release. A Class A felony is the highest level of felony in the state.
Thomson said the sentence is the strongest weapon the legislature can wield against the fentanyl trade.
“[The bill] is putting everybody who’s involved on notice,” Thomson said. “This is a highly serious criminal activity, and there’s no such thing as someone who is innocently involved in the drug trade.”
Colin Murphy, a criminal defense attorney with Gourley,
Rehkemper, and Linaholm and an active member of the Iowa Association for Justice’s Criminal Defense Section, said if a person delivers fentanyl to another individual and they die as a result of ingesting, absorbing, or injecting the substance, the distributor would be charged.
Murphy attributed the stalling of the bill in the Senate with the unintended consequences of the bill as currently written.
One such consequence falls on young individuals or kids, Murphy said, as they could be sentenced to life in prison for murder.
“What they thought of as a party drug, OK, they had no idea that it contained fentanyl,” Murphy said.
The importance of addressing the dangers of fentanyl and the
not have to know the substance itself is fentanyl to be charged with a Class A felony.
“Say you are a nurse in a hospital and you accidentally give someone too much fentanyl. That is a Class A,” Meyer said. “Say you had a back injury and were given fentanyl patches that your child later got hold of and dies as a result. That is a Class A felony.”
The definition of murder in the first degree under the Homicide and Related Crimes in the state legislature states, “a person willfully, deliberately, and with premeditation kills another person.”
tionally giving individuals fentanyl that results in their death.
“I have no problem with upping the penalty to a Class A felony if there was a knowledge or intent to sell element in it [the bill],” Meyer said. “I just cannot support somebody in prison who had no knowledge that fentanyl existed in their drugs.”
The dangers of fentanyl
ilar vein, are on the rise in Iowa. According to the Iowa Department of Public Safety, the number of opioid-related deaths in 2022 was found to be 237. Of that, 89 percent were found to have implications of illicit, or illegal, fentanyl use.
Similarly, the department found a rise in the production of substances laced with fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
Kayla Borja Frost, regional director for Community and Family Resources based in Iowa City, said fentanyl can come in many different forms, including in the form of a prescription pill.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. A synthetic
“Harm reduction is absolutely essential because if people are not alive to make the choice to get into treatment and to try and recover, then we don’t have a place to start from.”
Kayla Borja Frost Regional director for Community and Family Resources
overdoses overconsumption can lead to are not lost on the attorney, however, he emphasized the importance of “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
“If you are going to punish those associated with a fentanyl overdose, then the state should be able to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the person who shared that substance knew there was a detectable amount of fentanyl,” Murphy said.
Iowa Rep. Brian Meyer, D-Des Moines, and former assistant Iowa attorney general, echoed Murphy’s sentiment, arguing the bill was written in a broad manner with no intent or knowledge requirements, meaning an individual who is actively distributing the drug does
Meyer said first-degree murder would be willful and intentional killing of another human being, and under this bill, fentanyl distribution would be on par with murder.
According to the Controlled Substances Act in Iowa, the manufacturing, possession, and delivery of fentanyl is prohibited.
Murphy said there are a number of derivatives of fentanyl that fall under this act, making it difficult to acquire evidence or any indication of the person who is sharing the substance knowing the product had fentanyl in it.
“Outside an admission, text message, or other indication, it would be very difficult to prove that the person knew, and that is dangerous,” Murphy said. “People would be unaware.”
Meyer said the fentanyl epidemic is severe and has advocated for increasing penalties for inten-
opioid, Frost said, is a man-made substance with different types of chemical configurations and has become more prominent.
“Fentanyl can be mixed and laced with other substances, and whatever substance you think you might be getting may in fact contain fentanyl or another synthetic opioid,” Frost said.
Frost said fentanyl is easily and cheaply produced, and the U.S. is beginning to see production growth following the increased prominence of heroin, a natural opioid synthesized from the seeds of a poppy plant.
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are 10 to 100 times more potent than heroin, Frost said.
At the Community and Family Resources Center in Iowa City, staff routinely screen test for fentanyl when patients come in because of its prevalence, even if they don’t think they’ve taken fentanyl.
The center sees 5 to 10 percent, or roughly 40 to 80 clients, of its patients report a primary substance use issue involving opiates, annually.
“As quickly as we find out about one, people are making another different formulation, and that makes it hard to really know what people are consuming,” Frost said.
Frost said anyone can buy a pill press to make a pill look like a Percocet, commonly referred to as oxycodone, and a prescription medication primarily used as a painkiller, for example. Similar to Percocet — morphine, also a natural opioid derived from poppy plants — has been used for pain, surgeries, and other serious injuries.
Often, Frost said, individuals may become addicted to their prescribed opioids, such as morphine. However, in their search, they may unknowingly buy fentanyl or a product laced with fentanyl. Opioid overdoses, in a sim-
Frost said opioid overdoses look different for everyone depending on the level of the drug in one’s system, weight, metabolism, and how the body breaks down the substance. Respiratory failure is most commonly associated with overdoses, leading to death.
“If someone is overdosing, they will turn blue and stop breathing,” Frost said. “This is what we [Community and Family Resources] are trained to look for so they can be revived.”
Treatment and harm reduction
Murphy explained the production of a pill containg fentanyl that mimics something else, and the dangers associated with its consumption.
“There are probably different ways to approach it [the dangers], especially with respect to clandestine pill mills and manufacturing,” Murphy said. “Addressing the bill with some type of knowledge element would be a step in the right direction from a law enforcement perspective.”
Murphy said when there is a new drug that comes onto the scene and into the market, there is always an attempt to address it through criminalization.
According to a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 2023 survey conducted in Iowan, 313 individuals aged 18 or older engaged in illicit drug use, with the number of individuals aged 26 and older being 239.
Frost highlighted the importance of harm reduction and getting individuals the treatment they need.
“Harm reduction is absolutely essential because if people are not alive to make the choice to get into treatment and to try and recover, then we don’t have a place to start from,” Frost said.
The Community and Family Resource Center offers opioid misuse, opioid abuse, and opioid addiction treatment services.
A medical oversight program, Frost said, allows those individuals experiencing withdrawal to have treatment from medical providers and make them more comfortable, particularly for those difficult withdrawals that come from opioid consumption.
“If we can reduce the number of overdoses, and people are alive another day to make a different choice, then we have all of these treatment options available to them whenever they might want to come and access it,” Frost said. “That is what we want to provide so that we can be here when people make that choice.”
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Members of the Senate meet during the first day of the 2025 Iowa legislative session at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines on Jan. 13. A bill concerning the increase in fentanyl is being considered by the Iowa legislature.
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Photo illustration of an assortment of pills.
SPIRIT SQUAD
Cheering on the spirit squad
The University of Iowa has dedicated new resources to the Iowa Spirit Squad.
across the street from the
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All things brand new have a smell — that new shoe smell, that new car smell, that new house smell. A true scent of freshness.
The smell of new paint welcomes people walking into the newly built Nagle-Duda Gymnastic and Spirit Squads Training Center. The facility was built in 2024 and officially opened its doors in early April.
With that, the Iowa Spirit Squad has became the first and only team in the country with a facility built just for them — a credit to their hard work, dedication, and importance to Hawkeye sports and the fanbase.
clothes on our back and shoes on our feet, so, yeah, the athletic department does a great job supporting us.”
“I know it took 29 years, but the support that they give to the Spirit Squad is really amazing,” Spirit Squad coordinator and head cheerleading coach Gregg Niemiec said. “It’s hard sometimes because we’re not an NCAA sport, but they give us really good support in the academic end and the athletic trainer end. The fact that we get to travel and do lots of fun things, putting
The Spirit Squad is made up of cheerleaders, dancers, and a cast of Herkys. They appear at almost all Iowa sporting events — from football to basketball to volleyball — with the goal of bringing the utmost energy to every Hawkeye sporting event.
But it’s much more than showing up and chanting at the crowd. To learn all the routines is no easy task. The physical demands of the role can be challenging. To show up to
How Iowa football draft selections will fit with their new teams
Kaleb Johnson, Pittsburgh Steelers
Kaleb Johnson was selected with the 83rd overall pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and some might consider this pick to be the steal of the draft, as most experts projected the Hawkeye running back to go off the board sooner. Johnson rushed for 1,537 yards at a 6.4 yards per carry clip in 2024, setting the single-season program record with 21 rushing touchdowns to pass Hawkeye legend Shonn Greene’s previous mark of 20.
Johnson will add speed to the Steelers’ run game, which has been a struggle for the team in recent years. Pittsburgh
every single game with high energy is mentally difficult.
“I’d kind of describe us as the face of the university,” third-year dancer Sky Molett said. “Not a lot of fans get the chance to have one-on-one connections with the athletes or the people who they’re there for. But we are what helps build the connections between the fans and the team.”
“I would call Spirit Squad the ultimate energy people,” third-year cheerleader Tyler
Iowa pitcher Anthony Watts has became a crucial piece of the Hawkeyes’ 2025 success.
Iowa
Watts
High School in Waukee, Iowa, dazzling Class 4A with his high velocity and large 6-foot-4 frame. He ended his senior campaign earning Iowa Pitcher of the Year honors with an impressive 1.20 earned run average in 62 innings of work.
Despite efforts from Heller and the Hawkeyes, Watts ultimately decided to take his talents to Omaha, Nebraska, and pitch for the Creighton Blue Jays. Watts had a solid freshman season for the Blue Jays. He started in eight games while posting a 5.15 earned run average and notching 26 strikeouts. But after one year in Omaha, Watts entered the transfer portal to potentially return to his home state.
Watts did just that and signed with Iowa.
“When he reached out to us, we basically called him in, talked about how we do things here and why he was wanting to leave,” Heller said. “We determined that he wanted to come here for all the right reasons. We felt like he had a chance to be a really special pitcher.”
When Watts came to Iowa City in 2024, he knew there was a potential opening in the starting lineup. With the departure of Ty Langdenberg, fellow pitchers Brody Brecht and Marcus Morgan needed one more arm to complete the weekend rotation.
Heller ultimately decided to go with Cade Obermueller as the third starting pitcher. While Watts was hunting for that same spot, he wasn’t at all disappointed. In fact, he relished the moment, trying to provide any support he could for his new team.
“It came down to doing what was best for the team,” Watts said. “Obviously, last year, we had a lot of good arms. There are a lot of spots and opportunities, not only in the starting rotation, but also in the bullpen. It was kind of just being open to anything.”
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Visitors socialize during the grand opening ceremony of the Nagle-Duda Gymnastic & Spirit Squads Training Center in Iowa City on April 10. The facility was finished in 2024 and sits
women’s soccer facility on Prairie Meadow Drive.
Baseball
Wednesday, May 7
UIC Chicago, Illinois
6 p.m.
Friday, May 9, through Sunday, May 11
Oregon State Des Moines, Iowa
6:35 p.m. on Friday, May 9
3:35 p.m. on Saturday, May 10
1:05 p.m. on Sunday, May 11
Softball
Wednesday, May 7, through Saturday, May 10
Big Ten tournament
West Lafayette, Indiana
Track and Field
Saturday, May 10
Iowa State Classic Ames, Iowa
WHAT YOU’VE MISSED
Purdue transfer safety Ty Hudkins has committed to Iowa football, he announced April 29. The 5-foot-11, 197-pound defensive back fills a much needed void in the Hawkeye secondary. Hudkins became Iowa football’s second transfer addition to its passing defense as they landed South Dakota cornerback Shahid Barros on April 25. He was mainly a special teams player throughout all 12 appearances for the Boilermakers last season as a true freshman. Hudkins has three years of eligibility remaining. Hailing from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Hudkins was a 2024 three-star recruit coming out of Forest Hills Central High School. He logged 98 tackles and five interceptions on the way to earning Associated Press Division 3-4 Player of the Year in Michigan for his senior season.
He originally committed to Northwestern but flipped to Purdue in September 2023. Hudkins chose the Boilermakers over several other Division-I programs in Minnesota, Tulane, and Air Force.
Now, Hudkins makes the five-hour trek west to Iowa City, where he hopes to guide the Hawkeyes back to national prominence after a subpar 8-5 2024 campaign.
Iowa women’s wrestling head coach Clarissa Chun was named the USA Wrestling Women’s Coach of the Year, it was announced on May 1, after leading the Hawkeyes to their second national championship title. The award highlights Chun’s contributions dating back to 2024, Iowa’s first season as a program, where her team finished with a 16-0 duals record and was crowned national champions. Chun’s success continued in the 2024-25 campaign where her Hawkeyes took home another national title and went 19-0 in duals.
Iowa women’s wrestling has crowned nine individual national champions in its first two seasons.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“That’s the standard every day, come out here and compete.
There’s good energy, they made a bunch of plays, and they had a pick in the endzone. So just having the guys out there competing every day, it’s just going to make the team better going into the fall.”
A history of hallmarks at Carver-Hawkeye Arena
The Indiana Fever game was just the latest of great exhibitions at the basketball arena.
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Imagine how many people could fit into a packed Carver-Hawkeye Arena to watch an Iowa basketball game? Easily several thousand, but would it be more than 10,000? Maybe even 15,000? How about 22,157?
In a venue designed to accommodate around 15,000 fans and spectators, 22,157 people packed in the Hawkeye women take on Ohio State in a women’s basketball record-setting attendance on Feb. 3, 1985.
Even though it wasn’t a flashy exhibition game or Caitlin Clark three-point contest; even though Iowa, then coached by C. Vivian Stringer, lost in a 56-47 Buckeye victory, this spectacle was a giant leap in marking CarverHawkeye Arena, then only two years old, a place where history happens.
When it was announced that Clark and the Indiana Fever would play an exhibition game against the Brazilian National Team there on May 4, fan excitement went through the roof. General admission tickets sold out in 37 minutes. But this excitement was far from the only time Carver-Hawkeye Arena has been given the opportunity to display history.
The monumental space opened on Jan. 3, 1983, and not even two years later found itself hosting the 1984 U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team in one of its eight exhibition games against the NBA All-Stars.
Despite their status as college kids going up against league greats such as Magic Johnson, the Olympians won all eight exhibition games, including the contest played at Carver.
Team USA came out on top, 92-79, in front of a sold-out crowd at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
A 16-point effort in the Iowa City game came from a 21-year-old guard who played at North Carolina, already on the verge of superstardom. He was also the leading scorer through Team USA’s 8-0 run to the gold medal at the Summer Games themselves. His name? Michael Jordan.
While not every exhibition at Carver has been an Olympic contest featuring one of the greatest athletes of all time, these events have drawn large crowds in their own right.
To start the 2023-24 season, Clark’s final
Q&A | SEAN SMITH
campaign as a Hawkeye, the Iowa women’s team played an exhibition game against Clarke University on Oct. 22, one week after their 94-72 victory over DePaul at the Oct. 15 Crossover at Kinnick.
The Hawkeyes bested the Pride in a dominating 122-49 triumph, with No. 22 putting up 24 points and second-year Hannah Stuelke contributing 27 points.
When Clark was selected by the Indiana Fever as the first overall pick in the WNBA draft in 2024, uncertainty in Iowa’s program loomed going into the 2024-25 season. Even with tickets sold out for the second year in a row, a team without Clark and Lisa Bluder promised some growing pains.
Despite this, the Hawkeyes kicked off the 2024-25 warpath at Carver with another triple-digit win, this time a 110-55 victory over Missouri Western on Oct. 30.
Under the leadership of first-year head
Iowa track and field thrower talks Iowa, music
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The Daily Iowan: Why did you choose Iowa?
Sean Smith: I chose Iowa because I was able to go to a new part of the country, and they had a great track and field team. They had a great coach and a great school around it along with a great culture around athletics.
What’s your favorite track and field memory?
I’d probably say just all the relationships I’ve built around track and field so far in my time here — both across Iowa and across different universities in the country, just building relationships around the throwing events.
What is your favorite restaurant to go to in Iowa City?
I’m going to have to say Iowa Chop House. I usually get the porterhouse with chocolate cake
New York Giants
- Iowa football safety Xavier Nwankpa on the defensive backs during spring open practice on April 26
STAT OF THE WEEK
Points from former Iowa women’s basketball and current Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark in the May 4 exhibition inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena
While they may not have had the flashiest picks and made some decisions that many would consider questionable, the New York Giants may have very well won this year’s draft. With the third overall pick, the Giants went with first team All-American defensive end Abdul Carter out of Penn State. Carter will add to the Giants’ already elite pass rush where last season Dexter Lawrence and Brian Burns combined for 17 sacks. Carter racked up 12 sacks, 23.5 tackles for loss, and two forced fumbles with the Nittany Lions in 2024. He went on to win Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors as well as first team All-American defensive honors.
It’s no reach to say the Giants now boast one of the best pass rush units in the league. They couldn’t
for dessert. When we went with recruits a few years ago, everyone got a porterhouse, and we all polished them off pretty good.
What is your favorite TV series? Peaky Blinders. There’s not many other TV shows like it, and it’s based off of real events with gangsters back in the depression era over in England.
coach Jan Jensen, a longtime assistant to and friend of Bluder, Stuelke and first-year Teagan Mallegni each put up 18 points, while every eligible Iowa player contributed points of their own, including fourth-year newcomer guard Lucy Olsen with 14 points.
The men’s basketball team has seen its fair share of success in exhibition games, too. To showcase the start of the 2023-24 season, the Hawkeyes nabbed a 103-76 win over a visiting Quincy squad on Oct. 30. This past season, a 23-point effort by fourth-year Payton Sandfort led Iowa to a 102-81 victory over Minnesota-Duluth on Oct. 25.
From showcases of NBA players to college stars, from Team USA to international players, Carver-Hawkeye Arena has established a history of showcasing talent from everywhere in wrestling, concerts, public speaking, and of course, basketball — an Iowa staple.
If you could play any other sport for Iowa, which would you pick?
I’d probably say baseball. I miss when I played it back home. I was a first baseman, pretty lock-down.
What is your go-to pre-meet meal?
My breakfast stays the same. It’s two bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches with two eggs per sandwich along with a whole bottle of orange juice. The night before, ideally, it’s going to be about a pound of steak and two baked potatoes.
pass up on a generational pick like Carter at third overall.
With the 25th pick, the Giants got their quarterback, Jaxson Dart. Despite the criticism, this was a fantastic pick. Dart was unquestionably the second-best quarterback in this draft.
Dart makes complete sense with the Giants offense. The Ole Miss product was a top-of-the-line facil itator in his senior season, throwing for 4,279 yards, 29 touchdowns, and only six interceptions.
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Who is your favorite singer?
Cody Johnson is probably my favorite. I like what he stands for. He’s very Christian and patriotic, and I just like his music.
What is your favorite social media platform to use?
Instagram. That’s where a lot of track and field information is, but if I could delete all of social media, then I would.
What is your favorite professional sports team?
Any Boston team. My parents met in Boston, so I was born and raised a Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics fan. A close second is the Buffalo Bills. I got called a bandwagon pretty often growing up, but I don’t get that much anymore.
What is your go-to karaoke song?
“Wagon Wheel” by Darius Rucker or “Your Man” by Josh Turner. I’ve done them on a family vacation before.
The Giants offense saw breakouts from receiver Malik Nabers and former Hawkeye and current running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. last season yet lacked a quarterback that could consistently distribute the ball. With veterans Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston to help him behind the scenes, Dart has the perfect opportunity to soon become the franchise quarterback the Giants have desperately needed.
Headlined with the loss of Saquon Barkley, the 2024 season was a step in the wrong direction for the New York Giants. However, with the addition of two potential franchise-changing players, the Giants will look to return to the playoffs and forget all about their disastrous 2024 campagin.
Tennessee Titans
While it may seem a little basic to back the team with the No. 1 overall pick, especially with all the talent on display this year, it’s clear the Titans fared the best in this year’s NFL draft. Obviously, Tennessee’s first pick does wonders for its offense. While Will Levis is a strong quarterback with an SEC college background, the Titan offense struggled this season, averaging just over 18 points per game, five places away from the bottom of the league. Cam Ward, who led Miami against Iowa State through the first half of 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl with three touchdowns before controversially sitting out the second, is a breath of fresh air for a Tennessee team in need of some firepower. He sneakily had one of the best quarterback seasons in recent memory.
What also sets the Titans apart is that none of their picks were all that controversial or upsetting. Each of the nine drafted players brings unique potential to the franchise, from Ward as a promising young quarterback to running back Kalel Mullings from Michigan. When a team’s last pick in the draft, the latter, is a veteran of the 2023 national champions and holds three consecutive Big Ten conference titles, it’s safe to say the team has done well for itself.
While some teams drew criticism for their various picks across seven rounds of the draft, reviews of the Titans’ selections were agreeable at worst and largely positive. The team’s official website even lists 14 different outlets and analysts that rated the team’s picks, with the lowest score being a singular ‘B-’ by CBS Sports’ Chris Trapasso.
The Titans had the best picking order, drafted some of the best rising talent in the league, and managed the nearly impossible task of placating most of their fan base as they did it.
If Tennessee didn’t win the NFL draft, I’m hard-pressed to think of a team that did.
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Players stand for the national anthem during a preseason women’s basketball game between the Indiana Fever and the Brazil National Team at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City on May 4. The Fever defeated the Brazilian National Team, 108-44.
HAWKEYES REACH NEW HEIGHTS
Iowa hosted the 23rd annual Musco Twilight track meet from May 2-3. The Hawkeyes were awarded 18 event titles, and Iowa athlete Maria Arboleda broke a school record and her own personal best for the women’s high jump.
John Charlson and Samantha DeFily | The Daily Iowan (Top) Iowa runner Sal Capaldo and Northern Iowa distance runner Karson Kleve race behind Northern Iowa mid-distance runner Micaiah Ellis in the men’s 800-meter during the Musco Twilight Track & Field meet at Francis X. Cretzmeyer Track in Coralville on May 3. Capaldo finished 21st and Kleve finished 15th, while Ellis took 11th. (Above left) Iowa sprinter Holly Duax finishes second in the women’s 100-meter with a time of 11.41 seconds. Iowa sprinter Lia Love took first, crossing the finish line in 11.33 seconds. They were the only two Iowa runners in that race. (Above) Director of Iowa track and field Joey Woody congratulates Iowa mid-distance runner and senior Jaiden Itson and family during senior recognition. Itson finished 12th in the women’s 800-meter, ending her collegiate career and leaving her best overall time in the 800-meter during the Bryan Clay inventational with a time of 2:08.49. (Beside) Iowa jumper Maria Isabel Arboleda Angulo goes over the bar during warm ups. Arboleda broke her own high jump school record of 1.87 meters and set a facility record with a 1.88 meter jump. This season, she has earned Big Ten Freshman Athlete of the Week honors. (Bottom) Fans watch from the stands as track events go on. Iowa ended the meet with 18 event titles. Their final regular season meet is in Ames on Saturday, May 10, at the Iowa State Classic. The Big Ten outdoor championship is May 16-18 in Eugene, Oregon.
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Lyndsey Scott cultivates connection through song
Grant Wood Fellow Lyndsey Scott introduces song circles around Iowa City.
Isabelle Lugbugan Arts Reporter arts@dailyiowan.com
The first thing depicted on artist Lyndsey Scott’s website is her, surrounded by a vibrant bed of grass. Scott’s face is calm, a serene smile on her lips.
“Our world is on fire. We have to find our ways back to healing and transformation together,” she said.
Those themes echo throughout her many years of creating and teaching with a love for taking inspiration as she found it everywhere. When she was a young artist, she moved from a rural town to St. Louis, Missouri, where she treated it as a teacher of structural racism and decay.
“The life of the city itself was speaking to me,” she said.
In St. Louis, Scott connected with young artists who were similarly inspired and began collaborating with them. She considered them her teachers and experimented with varied artistic outlets like parades and basement shows.
“Just creating whatever we can think of with no budget, so much time and so much passion, and it was almost like I stumbled from a mundane reality to a mythical world. All of our creative energy was multiplying each other,” she said.
When it comes to song, Scott said she was deeply moved by the Civil Rights Freedom singers and the role that collective singing played in that movement, which was to quell fear in the face of oppression.
She was also inspired by Meredith Monk, a composer, performer, and vocalist who thrives in “extended vocal technique.” This is a process to explore the voice as a language and instrument by making unique sounds.
Scott described her childhood as an “amuse yourself” period, as her mom wanted her to spend summers outside in the sunshine instead of watching television. She made up dances, created parades, and wrote songs, which is not very different from what she does now.
“You had to be creative to do that,” Scott said. “We were a big posse of neighborhood kids that lived in our imaginations, and we could have fun no matter what. I think just playing make-believe was so instrumental to my childhood.”
Ritual is also important to Scott, she believes it is the original multimedia and multi-dimensional art form.
“I’m interested in why we are creating and what our creations affect. Whatever media is required to play into that is ritual. It gathers and gleans from all of these practices,” Scott said.
Scott is in Iowa City for a year on the Grant Wood Art Colony Fellowship. She is the Interdisciplinary Performance Fellow and has a course called “Community Singing as Collective Power.”
“My students are rad, we’re just learning so much together. They’re writing songs and experimenting a lot,” Scott said.
Scott also wants to uplift the power of song away from the classroom, in the form of her new project, SONG*LINES. Inspired by the aboriginal tradition of song spirals or “dreaming tracks,” she holds song circles across Iowa City to map pathways of intimacy between land and people.
“I have seen how it facilitates collaboration and village,” Scott said. “My mentor shared a book with me called 'Song Spirals,' written by a group of Aboriginal women in Australia who talk about how singing brings the world into existence. It’s like this map of consciousness.”
One of the SONG*LINES events held at the Iowa City Bike Library on April 27 drew a crowd standing outside the building’s entrance in jovial chatter.
“It’s a great experience of being together and creating positive vibrations,” participant Jeff Hall said. “I think both songs my partner and I were here for were tied in well with the location.”
Kate Wiley, the fundraising coordinator for the Bike Library, said she had worked with Scott before. For the first two songs, Scott started with a song about the revolution and then transitioned to another one about biking.
“It’s a much more soul-bearing experience than just chatting about the weather,” Wiley said. “I think, for the Bike Library, revolution and biking are intertwined, and that was a great segue.”
Scott’s mission of connecting people and creating positivity through communal artistic experience was a success at the Bike Library. On a humid Sunday, the crowd of singers all shared a deep appreciation for song.
“Every song resonated with me, but the idea of empowerment and freedom in each one struck a deep chord,” participant Mike Haverkamp said. “I think music and song can touch every individual’s true humanity.”
Hinterland music festival celebrates 10 years
The annual music festival's founder discusses this year’s stacked lineup.
Hannah Childers Arts Reporter arts@dailyiowan.com
Tyler, the Creator, Kacey Musgraves and Lana Del Rey are scheduled to headline this year’s Hinterland Music Festival from Aug. 1-3. This year also marks Hinterland's 10-year anniversary. Founder and event producer Sam Summers was excited for the festival’s 10th year.
“New festivals typically really struggle, and so to be able to get over a five-year hump and now a 10-year one feels like we’ve cemented ourselves for lasting as long as we want to go at this point,” Summers said.
When Hinterland was founded in 2015, it was originally located in Des Moines, where Summers is from. The festival’s German name translates to “land beyond a river,” a nod to its rural roots.
Summers reminisced about Hinterland’s first few years, especially their involvement with the community.
“Hinterland over the years has been very DIY-feeling,” Summers said. “You can feel that it’s run independently.”
Summers speculated that artists appreciate the independent feel of the festival as they prefer to be authentic in their performances, and the festival does its best to capture that. Developing the headlining acts for the festival has become fun for Summers as artists have started requesting to perform.
“A lot of artists we get haven’t played in Iowa or haven’t played together with these other artists,” Summers said. “You always see these unique collaborations that haven’t happened in other areas.”
Particularly with this year’s lineup, Summers sought out artists who were well-liked within their
fandoms, hoping that fans of Lana would also like Kacey and Tyler and vice versa.
“We go for artists who can play on a big stage that will sound good,” Summers said. “You imagine, ‘How’s this going to sound at 9 p.m. out in the country?’”
Known for his West Coast hip hop sound, Tyler, the Creator will be headlining the first show of the festival on Aug. 1. His most recent album, “Chromakopia,” was massively popular on social media.
“Tyler, the Creator just released one of the best records this year, so we were stoked to get that booking,” Summers said.
Kacey Musgraves performed at Hinterland with Hozier in 2019 and will be headlining for the first time on Aug. 2. She is featured in popular songs like “I Remember Everything” by Zach Bryan and “She Calls Me Back” by Noah Kahan.
“She’s returning to headline,
which is exciting for the folks that have been coming to Hinterland for a long time.” Summers said. Also headlining Hinterland for the first time will be Lana Del Rey, who will be performing on Aug. 3. She is best known for her songs “Summertime Sadness,” “Young and Beautiful,” and “Video Games.” “Lana is someone we’ve been going after for a long time,” Summers said. “Outside of Stagecoach, Hinterland will be her only festival.” Summers hoped that attendees would be excited for this year’s festival. He emphasized that the fans’ experience was important to developing Hinterland this year.
“Last year was very hot, and there were some areas that we didn’t deliver like I would have liked to,” Summers said. “I’m very excited to get people on site to see how the grounds have grown and how intentional we’ve been with the improvements.”
David Adjmi reflects on career journey
The Tony-winning UI grad discusses his experience in the Iowa writer’s workshop.
PROFILE Grant Darnell Arts Reporter arts@dailyiowan.com
Tony Award-winning playwright David Adjmi will finally graduate from the University of Iowa this May.
Adjmi attended the UI from 1998 to 2001 but quickly found success off campus and never completed his degree. While in Iowa City, he worked on readings and productions with guest artists around the community.
Arthur Borreca, co-director of the Playwrights Workshop, recalls working with Adjmi around this time.
“David was always exceptionally talented and had a strong voice as a writer,” Borreca said. “His work got a lot of professional attention even when he was a student.”
Once Adjmi’s professional career took off, his plays were produced internationally. Some of his most notable works include “Strange Attractors,” “Marie Antoinette,” and “Stereophonic.”
A production of “Marie Antoinette” was held at Hancher Auditorium last semester, at the same time “Stereophonic” won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2024. “Stereophonic” became the most Tony-nominated play of all time.
Right around when “Stereophonic” was making a splash, Adjmi reached out to UI faculty about completing his degree.
Borecca remembered questioning why Adjmi needed the degree at this point in his career. Despite fielding questions, Adjmi was determined.
“I always intended to get my degree somehow,” Adjmi said. “It’s a huge part of my identity and growth as an artist.”
Adjmi described him-
self as unceremonious, often not even taking the time to celebrate his birthday. More recently, however, he’s felt a stronger appeal toward documents and diplomas.
Decades after first attending, Adjmi still holds the UI in high regard.
“Iowa is not New York City, which is where I’m from,” Adjmi said. “That gave me a feeling of freedom, like there was something stealthy and secret about making work where I could experiment and have my own laboratory. That was very exciting for me.”
Although Adjmi took time to adjust from NYC’s frenetic pace to Iowa City’s softer tempo, he came to appreciate how it forced him to slow down.
“It got me more in tune
with myself as a person and an artist,” Adjmi said. “The program itself was quite rigorous, but there was also a very gentle touch. There was an understanding that we were all emerging young artists trying to figure ourselves out, and very miraculous patience and faith in the process.”
Adjmi also spoke to what it means to be a successful artist in the modern world, where praise, awards, negative reviews and derision occur, often in equal measure.
“If you can fully come to value what art is and what it means to be an artist, and what your service is to the world, the other stuff falls away,” Adjmi said. “I’m not saying we don’t need validation and praise, but
there’s a kind of sovereignty and independence that every great artist has to cultivate not just to have fortitude to keep going but to bring a laser specificity to your vision without worrying about consequences.”
With his eyes on the horizon, Adjmi already has more projects in the works. In addition to rehearsing the West End production of “Stereophonic,” he’s concurrently writing a film adaptation. Several other film and stage projects are in development too, including an exciting play titled “The Blind King.”
“I’m just looking for interesting projects,” Adjmi said. “I’d like to work between film and TV, but I don’t want to just take anything.”
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The Japanese House performs during the final day of Hinterland Music Festival at the Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in Saint Charles on Aug. 4, 2024. This year marks the 10 year anniversary of Hinterland.
Behind Iowa City’s alternative housing communities
Alternative housing communities are helping combat loneliness through creativity.
Kate Wolfe Arts Reporter arts@dailyiowan.com
It’s easy to go a whole day without speaking to another person. The internet allows us to shop online, text rather than call, and live a life completely independent of social connections if we choose to. Independence, however, is not without its pitfalls; worldwide, people are feeling increasingly isolated despite technology making us more connected than ever before.
In Iowa City, however, two housing communities — River City Housing Collective, or RCHC, and Prairie Hill Co-Housing — are embracing an old solution to push back against this growing disconnect: living together, intentionally.
“There is an implicit sustainability to collective living. We have, functionally, eight families living here, but we don’t need eight sets of pans, we don’t need eight separate heating bills. We can all share,” Rachel Guyer, an RCHC said.
The concern for loneliness is not just an emotional one. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, social isolation increases risk for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, stroke, and dementia, significantly increasing a person’s risk of premature death.
In 2023, then U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared loneliness an “epidemic,” warning loneliness and social isolation pose profound health threats and urging the public to take steps in their everyday lives to strengthen their social relationships.
This concern has been mirrored internationally. Later in the same year, the World Health Organization launched a commission on social connection to address the threat of loneliness and social isolation.
Our social connections to others are just one of many social determinants with health, economic, social, and geographic impacts in our lives. These elements shape our overall well-being despite being out of our control.
Prairie Hill and RCHC are examples of collective living arrangements, where individuals decide to share physical spaces, resources, and responsibility, fostering community and connectivity in our increasingly socially disconnected world.
Founded as a nonprofit housing cooperative and just a short walk from downtown Iowa City, RCHC offers a radically different vision of what home can be.
RCHC is committed to providing its members affordable housing, shared governance, and the opportunity to engage in a fulfilling social experience. Currently, RCHC is
at approximately half-capacity, housing nine people.
Each member leases a room for a price below the market average. To maintain their properties while keeping prices affordable, each member must complete 16 hours of work credit a month. This credit is earned through cooking, cleaning, gardening, and community outreach.
RCHC President Julian Langley said while members choose the extent to which they want to participate in house events and shared meals, the structure promotes social interaction through service on committees and shared groceries and utilities.
“As members, we’re supposed to cook for the house twice a month. Not only is it a bonding thing to give us the chance to cook with other people and sit down and enjoy a meal together, but it also gives us a chance to utilize our shared groceries. Each member pays a fee each month we use for communal groceries,” Langley said.
Another Iowa City communal living space, Prairie Hill Co-Housing, places an even more explicit focus on sustainability.
“All of our houses were built with environmentally friendly components. We use recycled material very heavily insulated to decrease heating and cooling costs, and at least half of them have solar panels. We were awarded elite gold status by the Green Building Council,” resident Cecile Goding said.
Unlike RCHC, where individuals rent out a single room or unit within a larger home, Prairie Hill is a condominium regime. Each housing unit is owned independently, tied together by collectively owned land and common areas.
Prairie Hill is currently home to a diverse community. With 37 units housing more than 50 people, their residents range from young children to senior citizens.
In the center of the properties is a common house, a shared building with a kitchen, dining room, laundry room, playroom, gym, and other amenities. This facility serves as the social heart of the neighborhood, providing a home base for the community to gather for celebrations, weekly dinners, collective meetings, or day-to-day quiet conversation.
Goding views these shared spaces as essential to Prairie Hill’s mission for connectivity.
“People aren’t lonely. There’s a general feeling of support here,” Goding said. “A lot of people here are single, or their families live far away. But we’re each other’s family now.”
housing with RCHC.
“I knew while I was taking time away from being in school. I wanted to be active in a community, which is difficult to find. There is an unparalleled level of genuineness and intentionality in our community at RCHC and collective housing in general. Moving into this house was a way for me to not feel isolated after leaving the academic community on my college campus,” Tyne said.
For Tyne, living in a housing collective is a way to combat the growing social isolation and the social echo chambers we find online.
“People are incredibly isolated,
and we live in an incredibly individualistic society, and collective housing is a practice of intentional community where not everyone you live with is necessarily going to share all of your identities or specific values.
It’s a practice in recognizing we live with a wide variety of people and learning how to interact with people different from us,” Tyne said.
The philosophies behind Prairie Hill and RCHC echo a growing body of research proving human connection is key to health and well-being.
Paul Gilbert, associate professor in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa, explained the
intersection of community and health outcomes.
“People do better when they’re connected,” Gilbert said. “In my specific research on alcohol recovery, people mention over and over that a spouse, a sponsor, or a key friend was instrumental.”
Despite the benefits of connection, many Americans report feeling alone. A 2024 American Psychiatric Association poll found 30 percent of adults experienced feelings of loneliness at least once a week, and 30 percent of Americans aged 18-34 said they were lonely several times a week or every day.
The built-in social network of these communities drew Grinnell College graduate Phil Tyne to seek out collective
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Resident Charlie Darley deweeds a section of the garden space at Prairie Hills Co-Housing development in Iowa City on April 30. Prarie Hills Co-Housing has 37 units of housing for its residents.
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An arial view of the units at Prairie Hills Co-Housing development are seen in Iowa City on April 30. The center of the neighborhood has a hub for community members to gather for a variety of activities.
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Residents at Prairie Hills Co-Housing development assist in moving boxes in Iowa City on April 30. There are currently eight families living at Prarie Hills Co-Housing.
One potential explanation for this epidemic is simple: People do not have as many social connections as they used to.
“This has been extensively researched,” Gilbert said. “Researchers began to document that young people weren’t joining clubs, teams, or community groups as much as previous generations had. Around the same time, we saw the internet and social media rise, and people started to connect in these virtual ways.”
Technology offers the illusion of connection, but experts wonder whether it can truly replicate the emotional and physical benefits of interpersonal interaction. Prairie Hill has worked to combat this, particularly with its younger population.
“It is harder to get kids outside and interested in things, but the kids here just run all over the place. We just know they’re in someone’s house, and someone is taking care of them,” Goding said.
Intentional communities like RCHC and Prairie Hill are not a new idea, as Goding points out. They echo older traditions of communal living. Many cultures embrace a more collectivist culture marked by resource sharing and multi-family or multi-generational households.
“There was a lot of co-housing and communal living in the ‘70s, so it’s that background here — aging hippies. But intentional communities are old. In some countries, the standard is to have extended families all live in one house or have households be connected,” Goding said.
In the U.S., however, the dominant housing model has long prioritized independence and ownership. Yet as loneliness and isolation rise, more people question whether the model serves their emotional and social needs.
“Isolation is dangerous. When I grew up, everyone in the community knew who needed help, and we were able to support each other. Now, we don’t even always know
housing is one way to make a tangible difference in people’s lives by being a reciprocal support system and actually engaging in healthy communication.”
Our social ties to others — even casual connections — are instrumental to our overall health. Unlike other negative health forces, public policy or legislation cannot easily solve loneliness.
Gilbert points out, however, that doesn’t mean social
“I think right now is an especially important time to reflect on how engaged you are with your community. There are ways to be engaged with your community outside of collective housing, but collective housing is one way to make a tangible difference in people’s lives by being a reciprocal support system and actually engaging in healthy communication.”
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what’s happening two blocks away from us,” Goding said.
For many people, including Tyne, collective housing offers a counter-narrative: one where intentionality takes center stage, and small choices become an act of resistance.
“I think right now is an especially important time to reflect on how engaged you are with your community,” Tyne said. “There are ways to be engaged with your community outside of collective housing, but collective
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solve.
change is beyond reach. By understanding the ties between social connection and bodily health, individuals are empowered to make small-scale choices, like who they live with and how they live.
“We know we can change our social world. Our norms and customs change over time, even if they tend to be very slow-moving,” Gilbert said. “But I think there are intentional steps we can take to open the door to change.”
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Residents Twyla Morlan (left) Sally Darley (middle) and Keegan Aggers (right) pose for a portrait at Prairie Hills Cohousing development in Iowa City on Wednesday, April 30. The community currently has over 50 residents.
